Whether taking a vacation or only going on a business trip, it’s important to know some phrases in the local language of the place you visit. Doing this will enrich your experience, and the locals ...

Microsoft Bing Translator has been around for quite some time, in fact, it made its debut in Windows 8.1, and ever since there is no looking back for the app. In Microsoft Windows 11 and Windows 10 ...

Premium offline translation apps have thus far been sold at premium prices — a huge barrier to entry for many consumers — since language databases are so expensive. “Data from iTranslate is one of our ...

Microsoft has offered speech-to-speech translation capability as part of its Bing Translator app on Windows Phone for some time—and speaking to a phone makes sense. Hauling a laptop or a Surface ...

Translator Speak and Translate Free (free) is a universal iOS app that translates spoken language bi-directionally in 66 languages. The app automatically detects the spoken language it hears and then ...

Google Translate is already a hugely useful app for anyone who lives overseas or travels regularly, and it just got even smarter on mobile. A new update to the Android and iOS apps that is rolling out ...

One hesitation I hear time and time again when I talk to people about traveling is, “But I don’t speak the language.” To be sure, a language barrier can be a bit of a problem when traveling, and not ...

I’ve demonstrated the Windows Phone’s predictive, heuristic text entry and voice recognition prowess to nearly everyone who’s ever pulled up a barstool next to me, yet they still bang away at their ...

2014 might be a relatively boring year for smartphone fans, but every once in a while you come across an app that makes you appreciate how far mobile technology has come. One example is Word Lens, the ...